[ESS] ESS error: Autoloading failed to define function compilation--ensure-parse

[Sparapani, Rodney]

On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 09:25 -0400, Dorazio, Robert wrote:
> ​Hi Rodney,
> 
> Upgrading to Emacs 24.5 is difficult because it is not available in
> the repository for Ubuntu 12.04​ (my OS).  I tried installing from
> source using instructions from the following web site,
> 
> http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/10/emacs-24-4-released-install-in-ubuntu-14-04/
> 
>  but installation failed to create a make file.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

Maybe you can just grab compile.el from Emacs 24.x?

compilation--ensure-parse is an autoloaded compiled Lisp function in
`compile.el'.